Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures (C.G. Jung Foundation Book)

These
collected essays by the distinguished psychoanalyst Marie-Louise von Franz
offer fascinating insights into the study of dreams, not only psychologically,
but also from historical, religious, and philosophical points of view. In the
first two chapters, the author offers general explanations of the nature of
dreams and their use in analysis. She examines how dreams can be used in the
development of self-knowledge and describes how C. G. Jung worked with his own
dreams, and the fateful ways in which they were entwined with the course of his
life.

The
rest of the book records and interprets dreams of historical personages:
Socrates, Descartes, Themistocles and Hannibal, and the mothers of Saint
Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Dominic. Connections are
revealed between the personal and family histories of the dreamers and
individual and collective mores of their times.
Dreams
includes writings long out of print or never before available in English
translation.